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<h2>Athletic Participation, Race, and Graduation</h2>

<h3>Description</h3>

<p>Six-year graduation data for 214,555 students in 2004
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<h3>Format</h3>

<p>A data frame with 214555 observations on the following 3 variables.
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<dt><code>Student</code></dt><dd><p><code>Athlete</code> or <code>NonAthlete</code></p>
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<dt><code>Race</code></dt><dd> <p><code>Black</code> or  <code>White</code></p>
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<dt><code>Grad</code></dt><dd><p><code>1</code>=graduated within 6 years, otherwise <code>0</code></p>
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<h3>Details</h3>

<p>Six-year graduation data from 2004 for male non-athletes and for male athletes, where &quot;Athlete&quot;&quot; means football or basketball player. These data show Simpson's Paradox.
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<h3>Source</h3>

<p>Victor Matheson, College of the Holy Cross, collected the summary statistics.
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<p>Data are derived from the summary tables in:
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<p>Matheson, V., &quot;Research Note: Athletic Graduation Rates and Simpson's Paradox,&quot; Economics of Education Review, Vol. 26:4 (August 2007), 516-520.
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